Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Minnesota

City of Waseca - Police Department

Waseca, MN · ~24 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Waseca - Police Department runs at 561% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Waseca - Police Department: 17.9 TCR = 561% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Waseca - Police Department safety composite

City of Waseca - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−30.7

2022→2024

City of Waseca - Police Department injury rate improved

City of Waseca - Police Department's TCR fell 30.7 from 39.9 in 2022 to 9.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 39.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=39.9 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Waseca, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 561% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #60/71
  • PHOTO Police
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police (0.1 TCR gap)

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City of Waseca - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows City of Waseca - Police Department averages 17.9 TCR (561% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

City of Waseca - Police Department TCR series: 2022=39.9 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Waseca - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 71 Police departments (except Ame employers in Minnesota.

City of Waseca - Police Department (24 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Waseca - Police Department
City of Waseca - Police Department (24 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Waseca - Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 39.9 26.6 3 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MN · Waseca

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 40 employers in Waseca, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Police 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Torrington Police Department 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cloquet Police Department 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hawaii Police Department 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE United Dairy, Cottonwood Dairy 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPI-Office 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Production Services - Jackson 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pipestone Repairs and Maintenance 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Federal Correctional Institution 833 FTE
CITY-NEAR WASECA MN 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cinch Connectivity Solutions 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1038 181 FTE
NAT-TCR Spears Delivery Service Inc 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Park at Monrovia 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 0911 - Blackstone and Nees Ave 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Pacific Fence LLC DBA Northwest Fence 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Galaxy Sequoia LLC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE First Street Investments 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tobi Engineering, Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bruce Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. 24 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.